The Candles of the Opera and More (Candles Can Kill You)

#1

The Candles of the Opera and More (Candles Can Kill You)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:13pm

I've been watching the movie version of POTO and i was just wondering about those candles in the Phantom's lair. I mean, there were quite a lot of candles...wouldn't he die or something b/c of all the carbon dioxide and all that...where does all the bad air go?

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

Updated On: 6/4/05 at 06:13 PM

#2

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:15pm

yeah and how do the candelabra just suddenly rise out of the lake leading to his lair?

#3

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:15pm

LOL good point...maybe he made a little chimminey :P

Actually i always wondered...if he was so paranoid to show his face, how did he get clothes for himself...and his costume for the masquerade..and christines dress and...

juat a thought...a really stupid thought :P

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Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:16pm

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#5

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:17pm

I guess he made it from bits and scraps of threads and fabrics he found laying around in the opera house. or he might've stole the props from different operas!LOL

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#6

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:18pm

and what is his food source?




minor technicalities... who cares? it's a great show/movie!

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#7

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:19pm

DUH pizza pops obviously :P and mr. noodles :P

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#8

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:20pm

i think madame giry delivers it to him. since theyre homies.

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#9

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:21pm

And did he build his pipe organ all by himself???!!!!Where did he get that?

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#10

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:21pm

he stole it probably


from the opera house

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Updated On: 6/1/05 at 06:21 PM

#11

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:22pm

I guess he stole practically everything including the swan bed!

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#12

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:23pm

And he stole the mannaquin (sp?) of Christine from a local Bloomingdales. (or Macys)

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#13

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:26pm

The mystical stuff probably would've been less obtuse if Schumacher hadn't gone so far out of his way to make the phantom less magical. It doesn't help that when the candles come out of the water it just looks like a plastic prop being pushed up by hydraulics, there's nothing magical about how it's shot.

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#14

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:30pm

exactly. hes supposed to be a magician, but in the movie i just dont see it

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#15

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:41pm

i still loved the movie though- probably because i've never had the pleasure of seeing it on the stage

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#16

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:50pm

ohhh according to the leroux novel he's supposed to be some big genius that is a really good architecht and makes all his own clothes and i guess food and blah blah blah. as for the movie, why does he randomly take 1 horse 100 yards to get down to the lair? and who feeds and houses that horse? is there horsefeed in the lair? inquiring minds want to know.

#17

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:57pm

He stole that horse (according to the novel). The novel also explains the source of his food and furnishings and such (however, he made his house look eerily normal... even though it was under an opera house next to a lake). I enjoyed the movie, but it definately had its flaws.

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#18

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:57pm

I know, right?! And how did he get the horse there in the first place? Through the mirror?
And Christine in the final lair scene just stands there doing nothing when Raoul is being tied up by Erik/Phantom. I mean, Erik is getting all punjabby and all she does is stand there with her mouth wide open singing? (Not that i like Raoul or anything[i really despise him]) But come one Erik walks right past christine with rope in his hand and all she does is look at him like she's about to cry!

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#19

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:58pm

the stage/movie productions arent as descriptive. alot of things are left unanswered, like the horse.

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#20

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 6:58pm

maybe he has phantom oompa loompas that sew clothes and feed him and his horse and make his chocolate and.....nevermind....:P

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#21

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:01pm

the oompa loompas explain those chorus voices in the title song.
"He's there, the Phantom of the Opera!"
*starts sewing*
"Beware, the Phantom of the Opera!"
*finishes sewing and feeds horse.*

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Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

#22

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:03pm

the horse was in the novel? haha i don't remember it. that is great.

more bothersome is the usefulness of the horse. i feel like they could have just walked the 100 yards (actually it was probably more like 100 feet) just fine. OR just have the horse right behind the mirror to get them, rather than like, they were walking, ok get on the horse, ok off the horse. it was just weird.

but my ultimate favorite weird thing in the movie: raoul is sword fighting, risking his life, etc. but once he is down there and there is a little bit of rope around him (which he was warned against), THEN he gives up, not even struggling at all. sure, alright.

#23

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:03pm

see?!!? it all makes sense now!!

i can see the phantom singing to christine as he takes her down his river of chocolate..

'theres no earthly way of knowning...which direction we are going...'

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#24

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:11pm

LMFAO

this is ridiculous. i love it.

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#25

re: Candles can kill you (POTO)

Posted: 6/1/05 at 7:13pm

good point...what WAS with the horse???

And who cleans up the cow pies??? its not the phantom thats for sure!!!!

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